1001 again… Knitting photos one day

Umm wow so where did August go? And can I get some of it back please… Understatement to say that I have had lots going on lately. But I do promise to try and get on top of things, I have some socks to show anyways.

Purchase (10/101)

Treat myself to a massage or a facial once a year

Buy a Lomo camera

Buy one piece of art

Buy fresh flowers for my room once a month for a year

Buy a new “professional” set of luggage

Buy one piece of investment furniture (so I bought a room of furniture. I dont know if I’d call it investment furniture, but it is simple/classic enough (west elm narrow leg 4 drawer dresser, bed frame and a very nice mattress) that unless I have to get rid of everything I should have it for a good long while)

Get a subscription to National Geographic Traveller, New Yorker, Economist

Buy an antique map of Paris and frame it

Buy a new DSLR upgrade(ummm yeah I got a nice little present for myself from work and so yeah I kinda own a new toy now!)

Find and buy one pair of killer jeans

Health (15/101)

Run/Participate in a 5k, 10k, and half marathon

Participate in an olympic distance triathalon

30 day trial… bikram yoga 3 times a week (went once this last month. I need to get it together but will be gone half of this month…)

Contribute at least 50% of max out to my Roth IRA annually (approx. $2000-2500) (done 2007, on track to 75-100% max out for 2008)

Create, maintain and track my budget for one year (not much change- still need to finish out the medical reimbursement requests, shipping reimbursements should be sent soon… and while not budgeting have lived within the paycheck limitations though I have had MASSIVE tranfusion flows going through me this month and am still working to rebalance all the accounts)

Pay off all credit cards and maintain zero balances (all balances can be paid off with savings if need be)

Save $5 for 1001 days (I am hoping I will catch up this month, but also have grad school savings to set aside for)

Do my taxes annually (2007 done)

Invest in retirement and net worth (10% of income)

Pay off 50% of remaining student loans (as of now I have paid 10% off, but may need to revise as overpaying on such low interest rate may not be the smartest part of the equation)

Invest in socially responsible mutual funds (2% of income)

Get a major credit card: use and pay of in full monthly

Save $10000 towards a major investment (purchase of property etc)

Learning (53/101)

Take a photography course on light and flash

Learn how to fly the trapeze

Take an intensive Spanish language course in Spain

Get my a scuba diving certification

Learn how to drive a Vespa

Take a wine tasting course

Learn how to dye yarn

Learn more about buddhism

Research travel photography and writing

Take skiing lessons in the alps

Learn 5 Photoshop tricks

Reading (59/101)

Go to 3 book readings

Read 6 classics and 5 works pre- 1950 (one down 5 to go for classics)

Read a banned book, a booker book, a pulitzer prize book

Read the Tao Te Ching

Read 3 biographies per year (one down two to go 2008)

Enter all my books into Library Thing

Creativity (69/101)

Design my blog (working with a friend to finalise what the Etsy person didn’t deliver on)

Do a photographic travel/documentary project (this month I will be in Ghana and giving this my first try, it wont be well planned so I am just hoping to get my feet wet and learn enough, but it is in the “right” direction)

Knit three sweaters for myself (Sweater #1 to be finished… Sweater #2 Bought the yarn)

Document all my yarn stash (might be one of this month’s photographic projects…once I can figure out a “light box” thing)

Print 10 of my photos for framing and hanging (doing a test printing of photos I like this month!)

Keep a film and book list

Sell 5 photos

Participate in Sunday scribbles

Go to the cinema once a month (saw Vicky Christina Barcelona )

Make a quotes book

Gastronomy (74/101)

Go berry picking

Eat at 12 new restaurants- one three star

Try one new recipe a month

Throw a dinner party for 8 friends

Try 6 new foods and 6 foods I “dont like” (3 more to go! on the “dont like” tally; 6 on the new foods)

Career (77/101)

Take GRE Course and Exam (1350 score goal) (Slowly but surely, I am trying to force myself to do the prep work… sigh. Must set a date here soon thinking mid October)

Apply to 10 PhD programmes

Work on creating a career path

Do (101/101)

Go galopping on a horse out in the free range

Participate in some volunteer/public service project (maybe dealing with sexual health or at a soup kitchen)

Purge my wardrobe (of at least 30%) (hmmm well I got rid of some and then some in storage… but I still need to weed more Since I just bought a dresser yesterday, some more of this will be happening over the next 2 weeks)

Attend a meditation retreat (5+ days)

Go snowshoeing

Get rid of 101 things

Consolidate and reduce my storage needs and use

Go to the HCB museum in Paris

Reduce my carbon footprint (by 10-20%)

Donate “one meal out” per month to a Food Bank

Spend 5 minutes daily in total silence and inactivity for a month

Visit my grandmother and father’s graves and take flowers

Go to an outdoor movie

Live in a new city in 1001 days

Hang my mirror, shelves and frames

Trace my Irish geneology

See a broadway play

Preserve my family photos

Go to a museum once every other month (Tenement Museum this month… promise )